Improving Production and Marketing to Enhance Food Security in Mozambique

David Tschirley (), Danilo Abdula and Michael T. Weber ()
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David Tschirley: Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University

No MZ-MINAG-FL-45E, International Development Collaborative Policy Briefs from Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University

Abstract: Food system challenges are examined from the standpoint of the country’s principal staple food: maize. Steps are identified that the country could take in the short-run to improve the situation, and also emphasize the long-term challenges the country faces. The focus is principally on the Center and South of the country because, with South Africa, they form a natural market area due to production patterns and transport costs; maize north of the Zambezi River flows almost entirely to northern cities or to Malawi, or feeds net buyers in the North.

Keywords: food security; food policy; Mozambique; maize (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-afr, nep-agr and nep-mkt
Date: 2005

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